Yikes. Talk About Ugly (Retro Circa 1998?)

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  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    It must be some kind of filtering mechanism. Anybody who is willing to read despite that * of a background must be really interested.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    The background is symbolism - which anyone wanting to know about theoretical math theories probably understands the meaning, allusion, etc of the imagery.

    You are right. though - it's harder than hell to read. I was trying to read it to see if I could pick up what he was trying to convey in the background imagery but it was driving my eyes batshyte.
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    • Profile picture of the author socialentry
      What are you guys talking about?

      It's beautiful because its functional. And second its dark. The problem with web designers is that they are in love with white. As a result, staring at your screen is like staring at a light bulb.

      You know what's ugly, modern websites.Meaning: flash that eats bandwith and RAM like it was cnady. Animations that serve no purpose except to slow down browsing. Social medias plugins that do nothing but clog the information that's on the screen.

      This by comparison is really streamlined.

      How come you need a couple of gigs of RAM to load websites.It is crazy.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
        Originally Posted by socialentry View Post

        What are you guys talking about?

        It's beautiful because its functional. And second its dark. The problem with web designers is that they are in love with white. As a result, staring at your screen is like staring at a light bulb.

        You know what's ugly, modern websites.Meaning: flash that eats bandwith and RAM like it was cnady. Animations that serve no purpose except to slow down browsing. Social medias plugins that do nothing but clog the information that's on the screen.

        This by comparison is really streamlined.

        How come you need a couple of gigs of RAM to load websites.It is crazy.

        I'm sure that you and I cannot be the only ones that think this.
        Unfortunately, I'm also quite sure that are are in the minority,
        especially in the world outside of IM.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
        Originally Posted by socialentry View Post

        What are you guys talking about?

        It's beautiful because its functional. And second its dark. The problem with web designers is that they are in love with white. As a result, staring at your screen is like staring at a light bulb.
        Can't agree with the "beautiful" part of your comment, but staring at a white screen being like staring at a light bulb struck a real chord with me. I've been having a lot of trouble with my eyes, and I'm convinced it's from staring into white for hours at a time on the computer.

        I'm just sure that's at least part of my eye trouble. So sure that I'm writing an article for my newsletter about it, appropriately titled, Staring Into White.

        As for the website in question, my first site probably didn't look a whole lot better, although it was likely much easier to read.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    The Internet used to be full of websites that looked similar or much worse.

    Ugly isn't confined just to websites though. Take a look at these ugly Christmas sweaters
    Ugly Christmas Sweaters for Sale | '80s, Lights, Under $35, Naughty

    Then there's Ebay, Google, Craigslist and Plenty of Fish, Four Ugly Websites That Make Millions.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    lol ... talk about ugly
    West gave this to Kardashian as a Christmas present



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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      lol ... talk about ugly
      West gave this to Kardashian as a Christmas present



      What's even worse than the ugly bag he gave her is that she actually carried it in public!

      LOL!

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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      lol ... talk about ugly
      West gave this to Kardashian as a Christmas present



      DIDN'T you know? "Are you some kind of &* or something?"(THEY say it, I DIDN'T!)

      This is great ART!

      "You need to take classes, to appreciate art!"(AGAIN, THEY say it!)

      Of course I AGREE with your assessment HERE! This looks like something a nearly blind, crazy, seizure ridden kid of 3 drew, though I HAVE seen similar stuff in the museum.

      With regard to the site referred to in the first post, I must be looking at the wrong page! Is it bad by today's public HTML standards? YEP! Is the color choice and text font one I try to avoid? YEP! Is it gaudy or UGLY? I think that is going too far with the site the OP refers to. Of course the purse you display HERE is, I think, HIDEOUS! I am shocked such words are even the first ones that came to me, I use them so rarely I could probably count them on one hand. SERIOUSLY!

      As for the insults I lobbed at you? They are typical insults some lob at assessments such as those you made here, and I am simply poking fun at how ludicrous they are!

      BTW the two people in the second picture look like homeless people, and he is even taking the trash out, or is he getting it from the dumpster behind him? Don't tell me that is West and Kardashian. I first saw west when he interupted the host just as he was presenting taylor swift having won the award, etc.... Talk about LOW CLASS!!!!!!!! I don't care if he were a TRILLIONARE! That was a LOW CLASS thing to do. Frankly I am surprised ANY woman would want to go out with him. He is so unstable, etc....

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      • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        DIDN'T you know? "Are you some kind of &* or something?"(THEY say it, I DIDN'T!)

        This is great ART!

        "You need to take classes, to appreciate art!"(AGAIN, THEY say it!)

        Of course I AGREE with your assessment HERE! This looks like something a nearly blind, crazy, seizure ridden kid of 3 drew, though I HAVE seen similar stuff in the museum.

        With regard to the site referred to in the first post, I must be looking at the wrong page! Is it bad by today's public HTML standards? YEP! Is the color choice and text font one I try to avoid? YEP! Is it gaudy or UGLY? I think that is going too far with the site the OP refers to. Of course the purse you display HERE is, I think, HIDEOUS! I am shocked such words are even the first ones that came to me, I use them so rarely I could probably count them on one hand. SERIOUSLY!

        As for the insults I lobbed at you? They are typical insults some lob at assessments such as those you made here, and I am simply poking fun at how ludicrous they are!

        BTW the two people in the second picture look like homeless people, and he is even taking the trash out, or is he getting it from the dumpster behind him? Don't tell me that is West and Kardashian. I first saw west when he interupted the host just as he was presenting taylor swift having won the award, etc.... Talk about LOW CLASS!!!!!!!! I don't care if he were a TRILLIONARE! That was a LOW CLASS thing to do. Frankly I am surprised ANY woman would want to go out with him. He is so unstable, etc....

        Steve
        Thanks, and thanks, I think? lol!


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  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    Still recall Kim Kardashian et al suddenly appearing in tabloids. I searched to figure out what made them famous and couldn't discern why and still don't quite get how it happened. I don't actually have anything against them. I don't personally know them. I recall meeting celebrities who seemed nice in their public personna but turned out to be exceedingly unpleasant in person, so can it perhaps be the other way around? Nasty public personna, nice in person?
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

      Still recall Kim Kardashian et al suddenly appearing in tabloids. I searched to figure out what made them famous and couldn't discern why and still don't quite get how it happened. I don't actually have anything against them. I don't personally know them. I recall meeting celebrities who seemed nice in their public personna but turned out to be exceedingly unpleasant in person, so can it perhaps be the other way around? Nasty public personna, nice in person?
      I can't speak about Kim, but Kanye IS bad in PRIVATE functions that are publicized! I mean interupting the presentation of an award like that is bad ANY way you slice it.

      Apparently Kim is famous for NOTHING really. Her father had some fame with the O.J. Simpson case. Robert Kardashian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Kanye is some "Rap star" or some other, but famous for being a public nuisance. The Taylor Swift incident I mentioned wasn't the first OR the last!

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      • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        I can't speak about Kim, but Kanye IS bad in PRIVATE functions that are publicized! I mean interupting the presentation of an award like that is bad ANY way you slice it. <snip>
        The first thought that entered my head when I saw that was that was, "This guy is in love with Beyonce."
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